Mussorgsky (Мусоргский) 73 years old

Mussorgsky

Saint Petersburg, 1858. A group of composers known as The Five meet at Balakirev's. Young Modest Mussorgsky, both a civil servant and a musician, has become a fixture there. He tells about the first opera he plans to compose. Then he goes to the country where he discovers the lowly conditions of the peasants and the bloody conflicts with the rich land owners. He works on Gogol's 'The Marriage', trying to render into music the natural accents of the play's naturalistic dialogue. But his efforts do not pan out. On the other hand, he starts writing his opera on the story of Boris Godunov. The Marinsky Theatre refuses to stage the work. The Five, and Mussorgsky among them, are libeled and the group starts disintegrating. When 'Boris Godunov' is finally performed in 1874, it is a popular success.

Credits

Mussorgsky Cast

Name Character
Lyubov Orlova She was 48, 72 years old when she died as Platonova
Andrei Popov He was 37, 5 years old when he died as Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Lidiya Sukharevskaya She was 41, 82 years old when she died
Valentina Ushakova She was 25, 87 years old when she died as Nadezhda
Vladimir Balashov He was 30, 76 years old when he died as Balakirev
Nikolai Cherkasov He was 7, 8 years old when he died as Stasov
Bruno Frejndlikh He was 41, 92 years old when he died as Cesar Cui
Fyodor Nikitin He was 50, 88 years old when he died as Alexander Dargomyzhky
Yuri Leonidov He was 27, 75 years old when he died as Alexander Borodin
Lidiya Shtykan She was 28, 59 years old when she died as Aleksandra
Aleksandr Borisov He was 45, 77 years old when he died as Modest Petrovich Moussorgsky

Mussorgsky Crew

Name Department
Grigoriy Roshal as Director. Directing
Grigoriy Roshal as Writer. Writing
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Mussorgsky (73 years)

  • Release day: Monday, November 27, 1950
  • Runtime: 120 minutes